Souvenir Nation Relics Keepsakes and Curios from the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History 1st Edition by William L Bird Jr ISBN 9781616891350 1616891351

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ISBN 10:  1616891351

ISBN 13: 9781616891350

Author: William L. Bird  Jr.

 Buried within the collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History exists an astonishing group of historical relics from the pre-Revolutionary War era to the present day, many of which have never been on display. Donated to the museum by generations of souvenir collectors, these ordinary objects of extraordinary circumstance all have amazing tales to tell about their roles in American history. Souvenir Nation presents fifty of the museum’s most eccentric objects—from a chunk broken off Plymouth Rock to the magnifying glass used to examine the infamous hanging chads of the 2000 presidential election. Smithsonian curator William L. Bird, Jr., regales us with the story of each artifact’s origins and the quirks of fate that brought it to the Smithsonian. Strikingly photographed, these curious objects form a uniquely American narrative: a cabinet of curiosities representing our nation’s most fascinating individuals, both celebrated and obscure, and the keepsakes they left behind.

Table of contents:

1. The cause of freedom

2. The immortal Washington

3. Industrial revolutions

4. Foreign guests

5. Diplomacy and war

6. Presidential pieces

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